Friday, 13 March 2015

Definition is a measure of how large aperture lens is open (aperture) when we take photographs.

When we pressed the shutter button, the hole in front of our camera sensor will open, well-aperture setting that determines how big the hole is open. The bigger the hole open, the more light will enter the number read by the sensor.

Aperture or openings expressed in terms of f-stop. Often we read the terms of openings / 5.6 aperture, the more formal language of photography can be expressed as f / 5.6. As noted above, the primary function of the aperture is as controlling how big the hole in front of an open sensor. The smaller the f-stop number means the bigger the hole is open (and the more the volume of the incoming light), and conversely, the larger the number the smaller the f-stop open pit.

So in reality, the aperture setting of f / 2.8 means a much larger aperture settings dibandingkaan f / 22 for example (you will often find the term fully open when they hear the chatter photographer). So it means that the smaller the aperture width f his figures and narrow openings means the greater number of his f.

Understanding Depth of Field

Depth of field - DOF, is a measure of how far the focal plane in the photo. Depth of Field (DOF) which means that most of the width of the picture object (from the nearest object farthest from the camera to the object) will look sharp and focused. While narrow DOF (shallow) means that only part of the object at any given point sharp while the rest will be blurry / out of focus.

To get a broad DOF use a small aperture setting, suppose f-22 (the smaller the aperture the more extensive focal distance) - see example photo above. While to get a narrow DOF, use the aperture as large as possible, eg f / 2.8 - see example photo below.The concept of depth of field will be more useful, especially in portrait photography and macro photography, but actually all specialties will be needed.

Tuesday, 10 March 2015

Skype is the most popular free voice-over IP and instant messaging service globally. It allows users to text, video and voice call over the internet. Users can also call landlines and mobiles at competitive rates using Skype credit, premium accounts and subscriptions. Skype was publically released in 2003 and now accounts for roughly a third of all international calling minutes. Skype uses P2P technology to connect users on a multitude of platforms including desktop, mobile and tablet. The call quality (depending on your internet signal) and additional features like conversation history, conference calling and secure file transfer are excellent. There have been some criticisms over the programs bandwidth usage and security vulnerabilities.

Skype Calling

Once you’ve downloaded and installed Skype, you will need to create a user profile and unique Skype name. You can then search for other users in the Skype directory or call them directly using their Skype name. Voice chat comes with conference calling, secure file transfer and a highly secure end to end encryption. Video chat is available on higher bandwidth connections and makes keeping up with distant family/friends much more interactive. Video conferencing and the Screenshare features make Skype popular with the corporate market. Skype’s text chat client features group chat, chat history, message editing and emoticons. Skype also enables calls to landlines and mobiles using a premium paid service.

Easy to Use

Skype’s UI is very intuitive and easy to use. All the classic messaging service features like profiles, online status, contacts and recent history are displayed in the left navigation. Here you will also find the Skype directory, group options, a search box and premium calling buttons. The right side (main window) opens the content you select. For individual contacts you will see a text message box, chat history and calling options.

Call Quality

On fast internet connections Skype call quality is excellent for both voice and video calls. The hybrid peer-to-peer client server system means the sound quality is better than most VoIP services. That being said, if you do have a slower internet connection, voice calls may be interrupted or delayed. Video calls will be intermittent and pixelated. Text chat will only be affected by very poor connections. The call quality button will give you detailed information on the expected call quality for each of your contacts (as the quality depends on both parties internet connection).

Summary

If you’re looking for a reliable and easy to use VoIP client, you’ll find it hard to beat Skype. Microsoft’s purchase of Skype in 2011 has further stabilized the platform and accelerated development as Microsoft used Skype to replace its aging messaging service Windows Live Messenger. Click on the green download button to give it a try.

Tuesday, 3 March 2015

Probably the most popular freeware cleaner globally with over 1 billion downloads since its launch in 2003. Piriform’s CCleaner is a quick and easy to use program which makes your computer faster, more secure and more reliable. CCleaner removes cookies, temporary files and various other unused data that clogs up your operating system. This frees up valuable hard disk space allowing your system to run faster. Removing this data also protects your anonymity meaning you can browse online more securely. The built in Registry Cleaner fixes errors and broken settings to make your computer more stable. The simple, intuitive UI and rapid but powerful cleaning make CCleaner a favourite among novices and techies alike. Professional, Network, Business and Technician Editions of CCleaner are also available for serious users.A Faster ComputerBrowsing the internet your computer picks up a whole host of unnecessary files, cookies and history. The same thing happens when you run most programs on your computer – lots of temporary files and settings are saved. CCleaner removes these unused files and settings to free up valuable hard drive space, enabling your system to run faster. The default settings only focus on typical junk files and locations so you’re unlikely to lose important information unless you alter these. A Startup Cleaner also helps you to identify and remove unused programs running in the background when you start your computer. This makes the startup time shorter and puts less strain on your hard drive throughout use. You can read more about startup support here.

Less Crashes & System Errors

If you notice lots of system freezes, error messages and often experience crashes, the chances are your registry become cluttered with unused files and broken settings. CCleaner’s fully featured Registry Cleaner identifies these issues and fixes them. The registry analysis takes seconds and cleaning just a little bit longer. Prompts advise you when to save backups to avoid losing important data.

More Secure Browsing

Advertisers and websites track your behaviour online with cookies. Saved passwords, cached data and internet histories make your identity less secure. CCleaner removes these files to make your browsing experience confidential, meaning you are less likely to suffer from identity theft and/or online fraud. The military grade Drive Wiper ensures any data you want to be permanently deleted, stays deleted.

Customisable Cleaning

CCleaner Tools and Options tabs allow you to customise cleaning options to fit your needs. If you are not a savvy user, you might want to stick with the safe default settings. Advanced users can uninstall unwanted programs, select which cookies to save, customise cleaning settings and setup system monitoring.

Summary

CCleaner has earned its position at the top of the freeware cleaners offering the sort of features premium programs struggle to compete with. The clean, intuitive UI makes it one of the easiest programs to use, but don’t let its size and simplicity fool you. This is a powerful utility for improving your computers performance. Piriform’s regular update process means CCleaner is constantly improving and its popularity will continue to grow.

Monday, 2 March 2015

ADATA Technology, a leading manufacturer of high-performance DRAM modules and NAND Flash application products, today launches the OTG microReader, which combines microUSB and standard USB connectors to share files among different devices such as mobile phones, tablets and PCs, making it an extremely convenient tool for sharing and backing up data in your mobile life.Thanks to its OTG (On-The-Go) design, the microUSB interface connects directly to mobile devices running Android 4.0 or higher without the need for a cable or an adaptor; and its standard USB 2.0 head connects to any desktop or laptop computer's USB port. If you want to switch the connectors, just press and slide out the desired connector. The OTG microReader supports all microSD, microSDHC and microSDXC cards. Simply insert the card into the base of the standard USB connector, connect to your device and access to the data directly. To eject the card, just slide another button on the back and remove the card.

Compact, Easy-to-CarryWith its slim profile, the OTG microReader won't interfere with other USB devices you are using your PC. Thanks to its capless design and strap hole, the OTG microReader is easy to carry without worrying about losing an end cap. There are two configuration options to choose from - the OTG microReader and the OTG microReader with a microSDHC or microSDXC card in sizes up to 64GB - both of which ramp up your storage capacity in an economical way. Portable, versatile, and easy to use, get your hands on ADATA's OTG microreader to back up and share your information across your mobile phone, tablet and PC.

Setting the shutter speed of your camera means 500 in a span of as much as 1/500 (seperlimaratus) seconds. Yes, the shortest and sekilat it. As for the exposure time of 30 seconds, you will see it like this: 30 ''

Setting
the shutter speed on your camera is usually in multiples of 2, so we'll
see a row like this: 1/500, 1/250, 1/125, 1/60, 1/30 and so on. Now almost all cameras also allow setting 1/3 stop, so less movement of the shutter speed of the meeting; 1/500, 1/400, 1/320, 1/250, 1/200, 1/160 ... etc.

To take sharp photos, use a shutter speed that is safe. Safety
rules in most conditions is setting the shutter speed 1/60 or faster,
so that the resulting image will be sharp and safety of the images are
shaded (blurry / out of focus). We can outsmart these safe limits with a tripod or use the Image Stabilization feature (discussed in the next post)

Limit other safe shutter speed is: shutter speed we should be greater than the length of our lens. So if we use a 50mm lens, use a minimum of 1/60 second shutter. If we use 17mm lenses, use a shutter speed of 1/30 sec.

Shutter speed to freeze motion. Use a shutter speed as high as reasonably achievable to freeze motion. The faster an object moves we want to freeze the picture, the faster the shutter speed is needed. To
freeze the motion of a bird for example, use the Shutter Priority mode
and set the shutter speed at 1/1000 second number (ideally the ISO is
set to auto option) so that the result is sharp. If you notice, the photographer was idolized sports mode S / Tv's.

Intentional motion blur - the shutter speed to show the effect of motion. When photographing moving objects, we can intentionally slow down the shutter speed us to show the effect of the movement. Make sure you include at least one stationary object such as an anchor picture. Consider the following picture:

Saturday, 28 February 2015

By definition ISO is a measure of the camera sensor sensitivity to light. The higher the ISO setting, the more sensitive we terhada sensor light.

To get a clear picture of the ISO setting on the camera we (ASA in the case of photographic film), think about a bee community.

And if my camera set at ISO 200 means I have 200 worker bees.

An ISO is a worker bee. If I set the camera at ISO 100, it means I have 100 worker bees.

The task of each worker bees are picked light entering through the lens of the camera and make pictures. If we use the lens aperture identical and equally we set at f / 3.5, but I set the ISO at 200 while your 100 (think again about the worker bees), then the image has to be faster who completed?

Outline:

When we add the ISO settings from 100 to 200 (the aperture that is always constant - we lock the aperture at f / 3.5 or through Aperture Priority mode - A or Av), we shorten the time needed to manufacture a photo on our camera sensor by half ( 2 times faster), a shutter speed of 1/125 to 1/250 sec.

You can try this sense in the case of the aperture, try to set the shutter speed at 1/125 we always constant (or through Shutter Priority modes - S or Tv), and change-change your ISO settings in multiples of 2; eg from 100 to 200 to 400 ... and so on, look at the changes in the amount of your aperture

When we add more ISO to 400, we cut the time of making photo by half again: 1/500 sec.

Whenever exposure shorten as much as half, we call raise sxposure by 1 stop.

Tesoro Technology USA Inc., a manufacturer of high-tech gaming products, announces the Gungnir Black optical gaming mouse with customizable RGB illumination. The Gungnir Black is named for the spear Odin used in Norse mythology. It is said that the Gungnir is so well balanced that it can strike any target regardless of the skills or strength of the wielder. Much like the mythological Gungnir, the Gungnir Black with a 3500 DPI optical sensor ensures smooth and controlled movements when targeting opponents in the heat of battle.

The Tesoro Gungnir Black has full color programmable LED illumination and fully independent and programmable buttons. 64Kb of onboard memory allows users to set up to 35 macro keys and 1600 recordable actions. In the included software, gamers can adjust the DPI, polling rate up to 1000Hz, and the illumination color.

The Gungnir Black comes with Omron Switch technology, which allows for tactile feedback and durability. Smooth Teflon feet ensure maximum precision and movement during game play. The ergonomic design and rubberized coating on both sides give maximum comfort and grip. Added touches like the gaming grade engine chipset, gold-plated USB interface, and braided durable cable make the Gungnir Black optical gaming mouse set to raise the limit in your gaming arsenal.

New Tesoro User Interface (UI)The Gungnir Black utilizes Tesoro's new UI which has been redesigned to be more user-friendly. Gamers can easily adjust the DPI, record macros, set profiles, and change the illumination color. This new UI will soon be rolled out to the entire current Tesoro product line.

MSRP and AvailabilityThe Tesoro Gungnir Black will be available in North America in March for the suggested retail price of $29.

Thursday, 26 February 2015

Often after buying a good digital slr camera and point & shoot, we are fixated on auto mode for longer periods of time. Auto mode is the most easy and fast, but it does not give satisfaction creativity.

For those who want to "pass and rising class" of the auto mode and want creative soul into the photographs produced, it helps us understand the concept of exposure. Renowned photographer, Bryan Peterson, has written a book called Understanding Exposure in which the concept of exposure are easily explained.

Peterson members illustration of three elements which must be known to understand the exposure, he was named the relationships between the three as a Triangle Photography. Each element in photography triangle is associated with light, how light enters and interacts with the camera.

These three elements are:

ISO - a measure of how sensitive the camera sensor to lightAperture - how big open lens when the photo was takenShutter Speed ​​- the span of a "window" in front of the camera sensor is open
The third element of interaction is called exposure. Change in one element will result in changes in other elements.

Parable Exposure Triangle

Perhaps the easiest way to understand the exposure is to provide a parable. In this case I like the parable of the exposure triangle as well as a water faucet.

Shutter speed for me is how long we open the tap.
Aperture is how wide we open the tap.
ISO is a strong impetus from the water taps.
While the water flowing through the faucet is received light camera sensor.
Certainly not a perfect metaphor, but at least we got the basic idea. as you can see, if the exposure is the amount of water coming out of the faucet, then we can change the exposure value by changing one or a combination of all three constituent elements. You change the shutter speed, mean change how long the water tap is open. Aperture change means changing how much water flow, while changing how strong encouragement from the water source.

Marking a new standard in high-resolution digital SLR photography, the Canon EOS 5DS camera shatters the status quo with a new 50.6 Megapixel, full-frame CMOS sensor. Perfect for commercial and fine art photography, or any other application that calls for extremely high-resolution, the EOS 5DS is the ultimate combination of EOS performance and ultra-high megapixel capture. It features an advanced, 61-point High Density Reticular AF system that includes 41 cross-type AF points and EOS iTR AF for precise AF in numerous situations. An anti-flicker function helps provide consistent exposure and color during continuous shooting under certain lighting conditions, while a built-in bulb timer and intervalometer expands creative opportunities without the need for an additional remote control. A refined mirror control mechanism reduces vibration and a Time Release Lag setting minimizes camera shake for sharp image capture when using mirror lock-up. New features like a crop function of 1.3x and 1.6x and a Custom Quick Control screen are complemented by advanced, multi-featured Full HD Movie capture, with Time Lapse Movie, and much more. With EOS performance and 50.6 Megapixel Capture, the EOS 5DS revolutionizes high-resolution photography!

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White Balance

Settings

Auto (AWB): Ambience priority

Auto (AWB): White Priority

Daylight

Shade

Cloudy, Twilight, Sunset

Tungsten light

White fluorescent light

Flash

Custom (Custom WB)

Color temperature

* With an EX-series Speedlite having the color temperature information transmission feature, the color temperature setting changes to match the color temperature when the flash is fired. Set to approx. 6000K if the flash unit does not have the color temperature communication feature.

For [Highlight tone priority], the settable ISO speed range will be 200-25600.

ISO speed safety shift possible with Custom Function.

Auto Settings:

Shooting Mode

ISO Settings

Without Flash

With Flash

A+

100–3200

ISO 100–1600

P/Tv/Av/M

100–6400*1

ISO 400 fixed*1,*2,*3

B

ISO 400 fixed*1

*1: It depends on (Minimum) and (Maximum) of (Auto ISO range).*2: If overexposure would occur with fill flash, the minimum ISO speed is set to ISO 100 (except for M and B).*3: Auto set for ISO 400–1600 in the P mode with external Speedlite set for bounce flash.

* The number of possible shots and maximum burst apply to an 8 GB card based on Canon's testing standards.
* The image file size, number of possible shots, and maximum burst will vary depending on the shooting conditions (aspect ratio 3:2, subject, memory card brand, ISO speed, Picture Style, etc.).
* The "F" after the number indicates that continuous shooting is possible until the card becomes full.